[Help-smalltalk] Re: Packaging GNU Smalltalk .star archives

[Thomas Girard]

Hello Paolo,

thanks a lot for your input.

On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:12:44AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > * gnu-smalltalk-mysql for DBD-MySQL.star
> 
> This one can go in the main distribution because it does not depend on 
> libmysqlclient.

Indeed.

> Maybe it would it be better to name the packages, for example, 
> libgtk2-gnu-smalltalk, libtk8.4-gnu-smalltalk, libncurses5-gnu-smalltalk 
> (or maybe even using -gst as a suffix)?  I don't know, I just got it 
> from your example of libglib-java.

There are two schools here it seems[1]:
 * $language-$libbindings, e.g. python
 * $libbindings-$language, e.g. perl, ruby

I guess we'll have to pick one and stick to it.

Thomas

[1] http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20071123.132507.2afe4060.en.html